Sommer Aldulaimi, MD, FAAFP

Dr. Aldulaimi is the child of immigrants from the middle east. She grew up in Tucson and completed her undergraduate degree, medical degree and residency at the University of Arizona. During residency, she created and implemented a global health track at her program, working with mentors and residents to develop a robust curriculum. Dr. Aldulaimi was one of the first graduates of this track, and it has recently been recognized as an example for other programs nationally. After residency Dr. Aldulaimi joined the faculty of the Department of Family and Community Medicine. She has a passion for global health and caring for underserved populations both domestically and globally-with a special interest in caring for refugees. She is also passionate about teaching medical students and residents to care for underserved populations and decrease healthcare disparities globally. Dr. Aldulaimi currently serves at the Co-Director of Global Health Programs in the Office of Global and Border Health for the College of Medicine, and the Medical Director for the Tucson Family Advocacy Program (medical-legal partnership), and Medical Director of Refugee Health Programs for the Family Medicine Residency Program.

Clinically, Dr. Aldulaimi is a full-spectrum family physician practicing adult inpatient medicine, obstetrics including deliveries and care of newborns, caring for complex refugees in the outpatient setting, and performing new refugee screening exams. She and another colleague started the refugee complex care model a decade ago and it has been expanded to both residency clinics. She has continued to be active in global health since medical school and has experience working in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, and Tanzania, Myanmar and Bangladesh. She also has brought education programs to some of these countries including a neonatal resuscitation program in Tanzania, a post-partum hemorrhage training in Ecuador, and Basic Obstetrical Life support in Bangladesh (and as a result was awarded the MedGlobal Humanitarian Award in 2023).

Her scholarly work also focuses primarily on global health and care of underserved populations with over a dozen publications in those areas and many national and international presentations. She has been invited to review Helping Mothers Survive Modules for the WHO and was invited to be faculty in the AAFP Travel Medicine CME course, and an AAFP webinar on care of refugees.

Nationally she is on the American Academy of Family Physicians Center for Global Health Initiatives Advisory Board, and the American Academy of Pediatrics Global Neonatal Advisory Committee as a content expert. She also served as the Chair for the Society for Family Medicine's Global Health Educators Collaborative in the past.